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THE BIRD SET FREE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: NO MARVEL, SWEET, YOU CLAP YOUR WINGS
Last Line: WHO HUNGERS TOO!'

'No marvel, Sweet, you clap your wings
In hunger for the open sky;
I see your pretty flutterings,
Will let you fly.

'But O, when in some shady grot
You preen your breast in noonday's blue,
Be not your Susan quite forgot,
Who hungers too!'



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